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Keynote: Kurt Jean-Charles of Solutions

This is a liveblog post of the keynote speech at the International Conference on Crisis Mapping. Kurt Jean-Charles is the founder of Solutions, a tech company based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, founded in 2001.  Jean-Charles was instrumental in linking together groups and setting up crisis response models after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Jean-Charles begins by […]

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Got $20? Send it to Haiti (UPDATED)

Haiti is not within my typical geographic area of interest, but it is (and should be) impossible to ignore the catastrophe there: as many as 100,000 people killed by a 7.0 earthquake which occurred on January 12.  As many as 1/3 of Haiti’s 9 million people are in need of aid.  For a country that […]